2025 BLVD Block Party


June 7, 2025 // 8 AM-9 PM 

Celebrate Akron’s Bicentennial in Kenmore at this free and family-friendly all day event. This event will take place rain or shine!

Check this page or follow us on social media for updates to the activities’ schedule, vendors and musicians. You can also view up-do-date The BLVD Block Party schedule here >>

Activities Schedule


  • 8 AM // Kenmore Cowbell 7K Walk/Run // Register to walk or run it here; stroller-friendly!
  • 10 AM // Kenmore Parade // Sign-up to Walk in the Parade
  • 8 AM-11 AM // Pancake Breakfast at the Masonic Lodge 
  • 11:30 AM-12:30 PM // Cardio-Yoga at The Center: Dance + Yoga Studio
  • NOON-2 PM // Petting Zoo at the Kenmore Branch Library 
  • 12:45 PM-1:15 PM // Kids’ Craft (Ages 4-13) at The Center: Dance + Yoga Studio
  • 1:15 PM-2 PM //  TikTok Dance (Youth) at The Center: Dance + Yoga Studio
  • 3 PM // Many Voices, One Kenmore – Storytelling Experience at The Rialto
  • 3 PM-5 PM // Canoe Rides at Summit Lake  from the Ohio Erie Canalway Coalition (first come, first serve – meet at the lake in front of Summit Lake Community Center)

All-Day Events


  • Food Trucks
  • Shop at Kenmore Businesses and Vendors along the BLVD
  • Kids Zone
  • The BLVD Collective Pop-up Art Gallery with Althea Jones and Miller South School for Visual & Performing Arts
  • Beer Garden
  • Big Love Living Room (Quiet Space) and Nursing Mothers Room at Kenmore Branch Library 

Music Schedule


Thank you to The BLVD Block Party Steering Committee!

Akron Promise, Angela Miller, Better Kenmore CDC Board and Staff, Big Love Network, Buzzbin, Kenmore Community Center, Just a Dad From Akron / JADFA House, Masonic Lodge, Schlup-Pucak & Wilson Funeral Home, Kenmore Historical Society, Kenmore Branch Library, Kenmore Cowbell 7K, The Rialto Theatre, Ward 9 Councilperson Tina Boyes. 

Questions? Please contact us at events@betterkenmore.org